Time for action – assigning tasks by distributing

Let's suppose you want to distribute the issues among three programmers so each of them implements a subset of the new features.

  1. Open the transformation created in the previous section, change the description, and save it under a different name.
  2. Now delete all the steps after the Sort rows step.
  3. Change the Filter rows step to keep only the unassigned issues: Assignee field equal to the string Unassigned. The condition looks like this:
    Time for action – assigning tasks by distributing
  4. From the Transform category of steps, drag an Add sequence step to the canvas and create a hop from the Sort rows step to this new step.
  5. Double-click on the Add sequence ...

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